Was emailing with one of the whiz kids at Dalkey Archive Press the other
day: Dalkey's looking for reviewers for a new edition of Jacques
Roubaud's work translated by the Waldrops. See below for information --
and for the contact info at Dalkey in the event you're interested in
reading and reviewing this coolio book. -- Gabe
Title: The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart
Author: Jacques Roubaud
Translators: Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop
Pub Date: July 18, 2006
Pages: 247
Price: $13.95
Galleys: Available for anyone who would like to consider it for review
Contact: Chad Post at [log in to unmask]
Jacket Copy: An homage and response to many of France's best-known
poets, including Charles Baudelaire and Raymond Queneau, this collection
moves through the streets of Paris, commenting on its inhabitants, its
writers, its monumental past, and all its possible futures. Moving
between honesty and evasion, erudition and lightheartedness, constraint
and freedom, THE FORM OF A CITY CHANGES FASTER, ALAS, THAN THE HUMAN
HEART explores a Paris that's no long "the one we used to find." A
sometimes mocking, sometimes poignant tribute to the City of Light,
Jacques Roubaud's poetry is filled with the melancholic playfulness
that's made him one of our most important contemporary writers.
Author Bio: Jacques Roubaud is the author of numerous books, including
the novels Hortense Is Abducted, Hortense in Exile, and The Princess
Hoppy, or The Tale of Labrador, as well as the poetry collections Some
Thing Black, Plurality of Worlds of Lewis, and The Form of a City
Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart. He is one of the most
accomplished members of the Oulipo, an innovative literary group whose
members whose members have included Raymond Queneau, Italo Calvino, and
Harry Mathews.
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